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Thread #124118   Message #4144231
Posted By: GUEST
12-Jun-22 - 03:03 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Oller Boller (Bill Caddick)
Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Oller Boller (Bill Caddick)
I never talked to Bill about the song, and also learned it by ear from the 'Rough Music' LP, but it certainly sounded like 'Aunt Mil' to me rather than Hardmill's, there and when I heard him sing it live. That doesn't mean I didn't mishear, of course, but I just played the version on the Unicorns CD and it still sounds like Aunt Mil(l). The video with that cousin's comment is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smfweOnm8UY

Apparently there's a Paul McCartney song called 'Queenie Eye': I haven't heard it, but presumably it's based on the children's game Bill mentioned. I seem to remember it as something like 'Queenie, Queenie, whose got the ball?' but there are lots of variants.

David Harley